Well at least we got al Megrahi out of the deal:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8844489/Col-Gaddafis-death-former-foreign-minister-Moussa-Koussa-faces-fresh-claims-of-complicity-in-torture.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8844819/Libyas-liberation-interim-ruler-unveils-more-radical-than-expected-plans-for-Islamic-law.html

Can we be blunt, Quaddafi or Gathafi as his passport said, was 'dead man walking' after Quaradawi's fatwa. just as Sadat
was, it was only a matter of time.

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/21/a-un-probe-into-death-of-qaddafi-theyve-got-to-be-kidding/#comments

Submitted four your approval. Coals to Newcastle;

http://arabia2day.com/reports/report-claims-german-police-train-saudis-in-repression/

Bahrain isn't that where they had antigovernment protests, by the Shia, and as for Qatar:

http://www.forbes.com/2005/03/25/cz_0325oxan_qatarattack.html

Well if the details of the latest Pasdaran plot is right, and I tend to doubt it, because I think they have better accumen than to recruit the likes of Arbsiar, their unresponded operations in Iraq, encouraged this overreach. Bin Laden, learned from Mugniyeh, if you hit us hard enough, we will cry uncle, and why is it so hard to believe if we 'redeploy' from Iraq, they won't go after Manama and Al Ubeid AFB.

You know, I take Obama at his word, he wanted out of Iraq in 2006, at the time of the Anbar Awakening. Ironically, Malilki is quite nearly as parochial a politician as him, having been opposed to the intervention, without which he would now be a minor
figure in Syria's Da'wa chapter. So consider me unsurprised.

A more distressing note, today is the passing of Prince Sultan, the Saudi Defense Minister, if not quite a moderate, he was a realist in the Palace at Riyadh, Prince Nayef, a man after Abdul Wahhab's own heart, now moves closer to succession, and
Prince Ahmed, another ultramontane figure, ends up in the Crown Prince role, interesting times.